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READ MORE »Monthly archives for September, 2009
Texas Governor’s Electio Race marred by Denial of Service Attacks.
Texas Governor Rick Perry’s 2010 re-election bid is being marred by his website constantly getting DDoS’d. Some say it was a database overload error, some say, DDoS. You be the judge, read the article here.
READ MORE »DDoS Deflate Script
Here is a very commonly used script, written by MediaLayer for thwarting DDoS attacks. You can learn more about the script, its source code and licensing information from here. User at your own risk.
READ MORE »HYIP Monitor under DDoS
HYIP Monitor website FairestMonitor.com has been under DDoS attack for the past couple of days. HYIP websites get DDoS a lot, and there is a huge conspiracy theory that the people who DDoS HYIP websites are also then the same people who then come forward and offer protection from such DDoS attacks. More on FairestMonitor’s [...]
READ MORE »Shopping Cart/E-Commerce Provider under DDoS
Actinic a small online shopping cart/e-commerce software vendor is currently under a DDoS as per the posting on their forums. You can read more about this attack here.
READ MORE »BotNet Activity on the increase
Botnet activity is on the increase. The recently discovered Maazben botnet is now rapidly increasing its share of malicious traffic. More on this here.
READ MORE »Dutch ISPs huddle together.
Here is something that is interestingly brewing. Dutch ISPs have gotten together to essentially have a ‘treaty’ on controlling and eliminating botnet/malicious traffic from their networks. The short announcement can be read here.
READ MORE »Researchers unmask two faces of zombie networks
A relatively short article in The Register on botnets that are used to send spam emails.
READ MORE »Service proivders could finally get their act together…
Botnets the herds of zombie (compromised) computers that together cause distributed denial of service attacks, need to be curtailed, but service providers have always thought of this as not their problem. Well, that notion could be changing soon. Working together service providers could put a noose around the botnets and strangling their bandwidth. Read more [...]
READ MORE »Flash Crowds get together for DDoS job at the Government, the Aussie Govt that is.
With the Australian Censorship law – dividing the Aussies, electronic civil disobedience (I just love this phrase) got together for a little DDoS showdown. Read more about it here.
READ MORE »Small website gets JoeJob DDoS Attack.
A small writing niche blog got hit by a Joe Job DDoS attack (essentially a spam attack). Read more here.
READ MORE »HostExploit.
Came across this website from the Internet Evolution article. Interesting! Host Exploit Who is this site for? (as it explains) You, i.e. any PC user, webmaster, ISP (Internet Service Provider) or web host, who wants to reduce the threat of infection or exploitation. Where necessary or possible all topics and articles will contain added information [...]
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